Stocks in the Spotlight Wednesday

AT&T, Hansen Natural and Zale fell. Sprint Nextel rose.

Shares of the telecom-services giant slid 3.9% on news that the Department of Justice filed a suit to stop AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom of Germany. AT&T will be required to pay a break-up fee of $3 billion, transfer certain AT&T Wireless spectrum assets to T-Mobile, and provide T-Mobile with a roaming agreement if the merger doesn't go through, noted Baird analyst William V. Power in a research report. Power rates AT&T at Outperform. AT&T, in a statement, said it...